The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado

Neddy Vigil, research professor in UNM's Department of Spanish and Portuguese and director of UNM's Language Learning Center, and Garland Bills, UNM professor emeritus of linguistics and of Spanish and Portuguese, discuss their book, "The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado," a linguistic atlas that delves into Spanish as it is spoken by the Hispanic population of New Mexico and southern Colorado.

History shows the condition of New Mexican Spanish and what the future holds for its speakers. With two major dialect regions, one in the north and one in the south, detailed maps illustrate the geography of linguistic variation for the Spanish spoken in the region.

The talk was hosted by the UNM Bookstore, bookstore.unm.edu.

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[arteks2001]

¿Cómo puedo adquirir una copia si vivo en México?

[unmlive]

amazon(dot)com

[jaschemasch]

I'm from the South of Spain and I found this very interesting.

[kristopherg2008]

The accent here is very distinctive as well a lot of other Spanish speakers say we tend to sing our words. It strange because here in New Mexico we have always been taught that we are "Spanish". Even though Spain and New Mexico are so far away we have similar ties. For example the flag of New Mexico is Red and Gold after Isabela of Spain. I belive those are also the colours of your flag.

[fernandov1492]

@marcoespania It's nahuatl, there is no aztec language, but it's okay

[fernandov1492]

It's very interesting, but i'm from the north and i don't say "truchar" ¬¬

[Kierkegaard123456789]

I was just wondering. Is there an audio recording of new Mexican Spanish you can post here. If you can't, is there a link I can go to to listen to it? I'm very interested in hearing it myself

[ray505ray]

I was born in las vegas new mexico, last name, Bustamante, I have read that it's a spanish last name, my great grandmother, the mother of my grandmas husband,was Ortiz, she looks kinda like a Native American or Mexican, she only spoke spanish and she was born in northern new mexico.

[afz902k]

@PerditaLupo Haha, socketines.

[PerditaLupo]

my kids were born in Albuquerque, their mother is from Mexico City and I am their father of non Spanish background (but French and Scots-Irish and etc.) and they have their own words like : muvete (move it), socketines (socks) gimmelo (gimme it) etc etc haha

[arklat]

I was born in Espanola, New Nexico. My last name is "Serrano", and my ancestor was Hernan Martin Serrano, who came to New Spain during the Onate period. He is the first European credited with exploring Texas and eastern New Mexico. My father, Moises Serrano, was raised in Canones, on Spanish Land Grant property deeded to Hernan Serrano. The spanish spoken there is the form of spanish spoken by the settlers who came to the area since the 16th century. It has endured, because of the remote areas.

[karlieanne2002]

Congratulations Professors Vigil and Garland on the publication of your language book. What a huge undertaking! This retired ESL teacher/journalist recently produced a Spanish board game called Verb It. As professional linguists, you appreciate how difficult it is to teach and to learn Spanish verb conjugations. Verb It motivates Spanish learners to practise those complex verbs in a relaxed, fun activity. Check out my Verb It video on Youtube and online. Hasta luego, carol franks

[marcoespania]

interesting. we also speak spanish in the Philippines. We say Palenque instead of Mercado. Because Mexico used to govern the Philippines for 200 yrs. do we adopt the Palenque term which originally came from the Aztec language...